Somebody said “Don’t post to boast.” because it can make people feel bad about themselves not doing so well. But there is also the idea of not hiding our light under a bushel. Sometimes I like to hear about your successes but, admittedly, sometimes I’m a little envious. But, hey, that’s just the way life is.
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This will make you feel better. I’m a failure and have no success.
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I’m a potato
Other days I am an egg
Same same but different
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That definitely did not make me feel better.
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I’m proud of myself. A lot of times in my life I felt like garbage and like I would never accomplish anything. I would wonder why can’t i just die because I’m just suffering here and I’m no use to anyone anyways. I think a lot of people on here struggle with that. I want people to know that things can change and to be hopeful.
Hope is extremely important in any form of serious issue. Not even like in a cliche way but science has backed this as well. I learned in one of my courses that they were able to change the prognosis of spinal cord injury victims from something insane like 90% never walking again to 80% regaining ability to walk and and other motor function just by changing policies so doctors would tell them that they could eventually walk again with a lot of hard work. They used to tell everyone with spinal cord injuries that they would probably never walk again, because doctors were scared of giving false hope and getting sued, but then people wouldn’t even try. It was so amazing. That lecture really stuck with me.
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Meanwhile people are quite willing to look down upon schizophrenics and make this crystal clear as to schizos being said to be inferior. If you then fight back, their actions get even worse.
OK, this may be a little off topic.
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I’m a vegetable
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Not off topic at all. But we do love an occasional pat on the back.
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Then you are the type that is unmoved. Admirable.
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I like, “What doesn’t kill ya just makes you stronger.” That’s a good one, @PinCushion.
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I have cognitive issues, so I have all the right to boast. Oh wait… ugh, I don’t know where I was going with this. Hmmm. Sending you lot’s of happiness chordy.
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From this, (absconded as a crazy person)
to all that i love and have in my life now?
it is worth it to boast
but
INTELLECTUAL SNOB I DEFINITELY AM
it is something i hate in me
who says you can’t boast?
i know i am also a pompous prike like my father but that is an internal battle
as i had with telepathy to me from a sales assistant the other day the only thing separating me from others is that
" You (I) spend more money on stuff"
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I can’t help but compare. So I just mute certain threads. It’s no biggie.
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I love Nina Simone. Haven’t heard or thought of her in a long time. Thank you.
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Some days I’m the pigeon, some days I’m the statue.
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After a year of living in an experimental house for schizophrenics unmedicated after I first got diagnosed that didn’t help me at all. And immediately after that locked up in the hospital with a 100 screaming patients besides myself for 8 months. And getting out and feeling stable for 5 years but then having a crack addiction for four years while relapsing and having several more hospitalization while still addicted…
I feel I paid my dues…
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being high functioning is something to be proud of
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This forum exists to help people recover in any way they can. Knowing and being reminded that recovery is possible is a vital part of that. If someone tries to tell people not to talk about how well they’re doing simply because they don’t like hearing about people with schizophrenia who are doing well, please flag the post. There’s no point in being hostile towards people out of envy, and it won’t help anyone’s well-being to try to cover up the fact that we can all do things to improve our situation.
If anyone here is bothered by another poster’s success, go read a different thread. They are not responsible for your hurt feelings. Not everyone can recover as well as some here have, but we all have to live in the real world. There will always be people who have achieved much more than ourselves. If you want to be bitter, fine. Be bitter. But don’t try to stop others from posting about their recovery.
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Come as you are, as you were
As I want you to be
As a friend, as a friend
As an known enemy
Take your time, hurry up
The choice is yours, don’t be late
Take a rest as a friend
As an old
Memoria, memoria
Memoria, memoria
Come doused in mud, soaked in bleach
As I want you to be
As a trend, as a friend
As an old
Memoria, memoria
Memoria, memoria
And I swear that I don’t have a gun
No I don’t have a gun
No I don’t have a gun
Memoria, memoria
Memoria, memoria
(No I don’t have a gun)
And I swear that I don’t have a gun
No I don’t have a gun
No I don’t have a gun
No I don’t have a gun
No I don’t have a gun
This song is full of oxy morons. But it happens in real life. Not to be pessimistic in any way but I heard this song in my head.
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I try not to boast. I’m not very happy with people who do. But I find myself sharing my situation in threads on here because I want people to know how things went down for me nothing more nothing less.
We all have certain things we recover will in and others that take forever. I’m somewhat jealous of the people who go on to become full time employees and manage others with this illness. I have no clue how they do it, when I get too many orders in my photo queue I freak the eff out, and that’s something very very minor in comparison to managing people.
Sorry if I ever come across as boastful. I am proud that I have recovered to the point where normal people don’t notice as much wrong with me as when I was first sick, but I would never want to rub anyone else’s nose in it that has what I have. If anyone’s felt that way from my posts, I’m sorry.
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